To the Millenials from a Gen Xer

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27. Welcome to DU, UserNSAv32!

Good to have you with us! I'd go the other way and ask them to stay - to take over, storm Wall Street, and channel the revolutionary upheaval of the 60's with their Millennial mindsets. Spearhead an "American Spring" taking the best of the "Arab Spring" and applying it here. Forcefully if necessary.

I'd like to see the jamie dimons and other banksters of the world dragged out into the street, stripped naked, and shamed on public display in the middle of the town square. And the young 'uns have the numbers and the muscle power, and the internet/techno savvy, to do it. I'd like to see a huge public price imposed upon the robber-baron contingent as a consequence of their behavior. So far, their greedy, shortsighted, Bain Capital, hedge-fund, quarterly-earnings-only, too-big-to-fail arrogance has only made them rich, famous, coddled, and protected. In other words, their bad behavior has been rewarded, reinforced, encouraged, and lauded. I would LOVE to see that shaken up. We Boomers couldn't figure out how to do it. We always seemed to come up short. Perhaps what's needed is new energy and new blood, and the boldness that comes with youth - before it's ground down and blunted by the sandpaper of harsh, rough, abrasive reality.